Blue Lagoon

Malta has a big shortcoming when it comes to sandy beaches and the same goes for the best place for swimming in the group of islands. Blue Lagoon is situated on Comino, the small island between Malta and Gozo. It is definately the most beautiful place you can find on your Malta-trip and is a must to visit. The lagoon has a crystal clear water surrounded by several tiny islands and is the perfect place to go on your time off.

There are several ways of getting to the Blue Lagoon. You can chose to go on one of the cruises from Sliema waterfront. There are several boats taking off in the mornings an the biggest is probably the Captian Morgan cruise called ”Comino and the Blue Lagoon”. You can get a ticket for the cruise (which actually takes a while as it does a little touristy stuff on the way to the blue lagoon, trip there aprox 3h and 1h back) in any of the travelagents in Sliema or buy it directly by the ship. You can chose between a trip with included lunch or the ”Super value” cruise. With lunch included it's 32 euros and the super value is 18. The lunch isn't the best but once in the Blue Lagoon your only choices are fish and chips or burgers. The trick is to bring your own lunch as the lunch on the cruise is on the crowded cruiseship and is not served until you're actually at the Blue Lagoon.

The cheapest way to get to the Blue Lagoon is going by bus to the Gozo ferries and get the comino ferry from there. It's also a lot faster than the cruise.

The third option is renting a boat from one of the charter companies, if it's a boat that you can stay on for tanning it's definately the best way of going to the Blue Lagoon as the place tends to be packed with people, especially in the weekends. Having a boat where you can stay saves you a lot of troubles finding a spot to stay, they are not to common on the ”beach” and most are quite uncomfortable as it's very rocky. This if you don't want to pay a couple of euros to get packed in among the hundreds of pinkish tourists crowding the deck chair areas. You can charter a boat for about 300 euros a day and up.

Level 22

Portomaso Tower

If you are sick of teenagers in Paceville and want to meet contemporary adults, 30 up, go to Portomaso’s Level 22. Besides fabulous drinks, please ask bartender Sasha for a mojito, he knows how his art! Also the cocktail waitresses are friendly, professional and beautiful. The views alone make this bar a very special landmark in Malta. Here is where once every 3 weeks or so the i-gaming social parties take place, great place for networking: crowded with employers and employees you can guarantee to have good leads for promoting your business in the i-gaming industry.

Lately we launched a sponsorship of one of those parties with the Swedish company, new to Malta, www.Pineberry.com. Normally those parties have Netrefer, Remax and Pentasia as their normal hosts…

It produced a couple of interesting leads for them and Peter, the general manager came out with a superb recipe for a Pineberry cocktail. All guests where treated to one and the If you want to promote your brand in a very filtered and targeted market, we suggest this approach. I thought it was going to be terribly expensive and it turned out to be fantastic for everyone.

Two and a Half Lemon

Address: Vault 5. Old Treasury Building. St. Angelo Waterfront. Vittoriosa CSP 09 Phone number: 21-80-9909

www.twoandahalflemon.com

Chez Cyrille

Cordial Restaurant

Address: Old Theatre Street, Valletta

Phone number: 21-239576

Open everyday. Lunch and Dinner. Lunch from 12:00 till 15:00. Dinner 1rst seating at 23.00 till 00.30. Closed Sunday night and Monday morning.

Email: chezcyrile@gmail.com

www.chezcyrille.com

This is one of my proudest maltese findings. A little restaurant in Valletta, fits a maximum of 36 pax, but the food is amazing, compliments to the chef. I had pork in Dijon mustard sauce (an absolute delight) and my companion had a grilled lampuki fish that was cooked to perfection. Good sized dishes, an extraordinary gourmet delight. They only serve fresh fish and since they took a while bringing the food, I think the pork was cooked on the spot as well. If you have time to enjoy a nice dinner or a Sunday lunch with wine, this place will surprise you. Another plus is that since it is so tiny and closed with A/C it is super cool inside.

Peppino's

Address: George’s Street, St Julian’s

Phone number: 21-373 200

Fax: 21378324

www.peppinosmalta.com

Peppino’s is not only one of the best restaurants in Malta, but it is an absolute classic. It is always nice to call and reserve an outside table for lunch. The price is just fair,but if you order the special of the day you will absolutely get price/value advantage and you will spend aproximately 10 euros per person. The special tends to be some sort of homemade pasta, for example: pasta shaped like confite filled with truffles in red tomato sauce….mmm… It has happened to me that I tend not to order the special of the day and choose another type of pasta from the menu, I end up paying 7 euros more than my other wiser companions at the table and even when it is also delicious I should have settled for the pasta of the day, because on top of that it’s faster.

You can also try it at night on the upper level that opens during those hrs, with the likes of people like Madonna, Guy Ritchie, Ridley Scott and beautiful costarrican wife Giannina Facio, it is a maltese must. Also the staff is amazing, very professional but yet super warm.

Tex Mex Bar and Grill

Address: 1324 Tower Road, Sliema

Phone number: 21-318-943 and 21339247

Email: info@texmexmalta.com

Bar di Cattania

If you need to have a nice breakfast this is the place. I went there with a friend and he had a continental breakfast. To our surprise the plate was huge: coffee, toasts, croissants, jam, butter, eggs, ham and a couple of slices of bacon. Seeing the monstrous plate I didn’t order anything myself and nibbled on some toast with ham.

This little café is right next to Tex Mex and it is owned (and even internally connected!) to it.

I just love when I get what I expect-no super soggy eggs, just at the right point!